Bill Gottlieb
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 Siberian ginseng supplements are avadable in most health food stores. iilli
Imagery
Imagine that you are a feather floating in the air. You become more and more relaxed as you drift downward toward the ground. You finally glide to the ground, gently and sofdy touching down. As you're lying there, ad stress has left your body, and you feel totady and completely relaxed, says Dennis Gersten, M.D., a psychiatrist and publisher of Atlantis, a bi-monthly imagery newsletter. He recommends using this imagery for two to five minutes three times a day.
If you're stressed out from work, Dr. |
| It helps deal with stresses." ginseng is available as a tea, a powder and capsules in most health food stores.
Homeopathy
"If someone experiences the sudden loss of a loved one and is in a state of shock and grief, the remedy I usually recommend is one 30C dose of Ignatia," says Mitchell Fleisher, M.D., a family practice physician and homeopath in Colleen, Virginia.
Ignatia is available in many health food stores. To purchase homeopathic remedies by mail, refer to the resource list on page 637.
Imagery
Although it may be painful, picture the deceased person on the last day of his life. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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 The following as well as the cayenne pepper and ginseng are powerful aids: immune-boosting echinacea tea; elderflower as a tea, or combined with peppermint and yarrow to induce and promote needed perspiration; hot lemonade with honey; or great-grandma's standby—hot chicken soup, because even its vapors help to clear nasal passages.
Other herbal teas useful for the flu are slippery elm bark for cough, fever, and sore throat; eucalyptus for congestion and cough; horehound and cherry bark for cough. Sage tea will increase kidney function and help to expel quantities of extra fluid from the body. |
Richard Leviton
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 Their sales in food stores were even higher: garlic sales in retail food outlets grew by 40% to $12.9 million and ginseng leaped by 63% to $11.8 million. Even more impressive was acidophilus (taken as a "probiotic" bacteria, beneficial to the intestines) whose drugstore sales soared by 140% and whose food store sales expanded by 57%. The U.S. vitamin and dietary supplement market was estimated in 1995 to be $4 billion a year, and was growing at the rate of 15% each year.
• Worldwide, sales of herbal medicines (called phytomedicines outside the U.S.) are equally booming, estimated at $12. |
John Heinerman
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 And while chaparral may not hold quite the same promises expected of ginseng for longevity, it can certainly help to slow down the aging process quite a bit from the foods we eat on a daily basis.
Holds Cancer in Check
The medical doctor most involved with the limited success that chaparral has achieved with some kinds of cancer, is Charles R. Smart, M.D., an internationally known cancer specialist, who retired in early 1985 as Chief of Surgery at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. |
| Hong Kong for as much as $25,000 per root!
Endurance Capabilities
Ginseng is best known for its anti-fatigue, energy-giving properties. But very few people know that it must be taken for awhile in order to gradually build such physical endurance, rather than expecting anything sudden to happen from only short-term use.
Soviet athletes swear by the plant to increase stamina and endurance for them during athletic performance. Professor A. V. |
| The famous French herbalist, Maurice Messegue, has often used it in place of ginseng to help couples retrieve their married bliss. He advises them to sprinkle powdered savory on all their meat dishes. For impotent men and frigid women he advises them to run the base of their spine with a decoction of savory and fenugreek.
In 1 qt. boiling water, simmer 3-1/2 tbsps. fenugreek seed for 5 mins., covered. Remove from heat and add 2 handfuls of savory. Steep an additional 50 mins. Drink 2 cups before going to bed and apply to the bottom of the back as well. |
| The 10 different angelica species, collectively known by the name of dang-qui (also dong-quei or dong-quai or tang-kuei), are second in China only to ginseng.
Richard Lucas, in his book, Secrets of the Chinese Herbalists, described angelica as having "an affinity for the female constitution," being good for treating anemia and weak glands, regulating monthly periods, correcting hot flashes and vaginal spasms (common premenstrual symptoms) and assisting women through the difficult transition of menopause. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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 Siberian ginseng: One capsule daily between meals.
Ginkgo biloba: One 60 mg. capsule or tablet up to three times daily.
Kava kava: One capsule up to three times daily.
DHEA: Take 25 mg. daily if you are over forty. Men over fifty can take 50 mg. daily. Women should not take more than 50 mg. unless it is done under a doctor's supervision.
Melatonin: Take 1 mg. sublingually (dissolved under the tongue) at bedtime.
Calcium and magnesium combination: One 500 mg. calcium and one 250 mg. magnesium tablet twice daily before meals. |
Ruth Winter
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 FDA residue tolerance of 300 ppm in raisins, 4 in dried ginseng, and 225 ppm in dried grape pomace and raisin waste for animal feed. Moderately toxic by ingestion. GLYCOSIDES • Many flowering plants contain cardiac glycosides. The most well known are foxglove, lily of the valley, and squill. The cardiac glycosides have the ability to increase the force and power of the heartbeat without increasing the amount of oxygen needed by the heart muscle. Among the glycosides are cyanogens, goitrogens, estrogens, and saponins. |
Mark Blumenthal
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Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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| Suma—This South American version of ginseng was first used by Brazilian Indian tribes. In South America it is used as a tonic. In North America, it has been used to treat exhaustion resulting from debilitating viral infections.
DHEA—Short for dehydroepiandrosterone, DHEA is now available over the counter and is reputed to be a potent energy tonic. I have heard several anecdotal reports of DHEA helping to relieve the fatigue and lethargy typical of CFS.
Personal advice
It's not surprising that victims of CFS are primarily female. |
John Robbins
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 Acupuncture, vitamin E, hypnosis, yoga, meditation, homeopathic remedies, ginseng, and other herbs, including black cohosh and chaste tree, have all been clinically shown to be effective in relieving hot flashes, sleep disturbances, and irritability associated with menopause.32
• In a double-blind placebo-controlled study, one group of women suffering from hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms were given two herbal capsules three times a day (made up of equal parts licorice root, burdock root, wild yam root, dong quai root, and motherwort) for three months. |
Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
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| Ginseng powder and extract is used throughout Asia to overcome sexual weariness. Another Asian remedy to overcome sexual depletion is to eat the meat of 6 walnuts each day for 2 months. In Louisiana, men restore themselves with a three-week diet that includes eating a handful of fresh-cooked shrimp and a small shot of brandy each day. Other foods of the sea are excellent for changing sexual fatigue to sexual energy: eat crab, lobster, shrimp, oysters, mussels, ocean fish, and seaweed such as kelp and dulse. In ancient Europe, oatmeal was a favored diet to repair sexual apathy. |
Bill Gottlieb
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| He also says that people with high cholesterol may want to use the following vitamin, mineral and herbal regimen to help control the condition: 100 milligrams of niacin twice a day; 200 micrograms of chromium twice a day; 400 milligrams of magnesium aspartate twice a day; 1,200 rnilligrams of lecithin three times a day; 500 rnilligrams of meta-sitosterol twice a day; one fish oil capsule three times a day; 2,000 rnilligrams of vitamin C twice a day; one garlic capsule three times a day; one ginseng capsule twice a day; and one guggulipid capsule twice a day. (Guggulipid is an Indian herb. |
Dr. John Heinerman
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 S-180 or U-14 cancer cells in the culture media.
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (the other Chinese treatise cited earlier) teaches that chi is the life energy that permeates the entire universe, this planet, and every living thing therein. There are cycles to everything, a constant rhythmic shifting, if you will, from one pole to its opposite. And just as every process of nature shows cyclicity, every process has a polar nature. Though oneness is the primary law of the universe, this fundamental two-dimensional view of nature generates the concept of yin and yang. |
Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.
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 Ginkgo biloba. He also ran out of deprenyl. He was reluctant to buy more of these medications because he was living on a very limited income. He believed he could continue to improve without the medications, because his recently rediscovered abilities had begun to feel like an integral part of him.
But when he stopped taking the medications, he gradually began to lose his newfound zest and clarity. During the next forty days he declined. "Forty days to a better brain" had segued into "forty more days to the same old brain." He began to have less physical energy. |
Christopher Hobbs
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 Ying et al, 1987).
Medical Uses
Cordyceps sinensis is known as an antiasthmatic and anticancer agent which causes smooth muscle relaxation and can potentiate the effects of epinephrine. It has been used to stimulate the endocrine system, as an antibacterial agent, and for patients suffering from chronic renal failure.
In China, C. sinensis is used to regulate and support the gonads and as a lung and kidney tonic. It is used specifically for excessive tiredness, persistent cough, impotence, debility, and anemia. |
Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay.
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 M. officinalis), and guduchi stem. These herbs can sometimes be overstimulating and should not be used if there are signs of heat or inflammation.
• Nourishing aphrodisiac herbs include wild asparagus root, ashwagandha root, muira puama tincture, saw palmetto berry, shilajatu, dang gui root, milky oat seed tincture, amla fruit, purified gunga seed (Abrusprecatorius), cuscuta seed (tu si zi seed or C. chinensis), and purified cowhage seed (Mucuna prurita). TCM doctors note that seeds in general tend to nourish hormonal energy, which explains why there are several types of seeds in this group. |
Christopher Hobbs
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| It was also used traditionally for impotence, neurasthenia, backache (Huang, 1993), and as an antidote for "opium poisoning" and to cure the habit of opium eating (Uphof, 1968).
Chemistry
C. sinensis contains 10.84% water; 8.4% fat; 25.32% coarse protein; 18.53% coarse fiber; 28.9% carbohydrates; and 4.1% ash. Its fat content consists of 13% saturated and 82.2% unsaturated fatty acids (31.69% oleic, 68.31% linoleic) (Ying et al, 1987). Uracil, uridine, adenine, and adenosine have been extracted from C. sinensis (Zhang & Li, 1987). |
Kathi Keville
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 Most of the rest of the women improved when vitamin E was taken with the herb. It takes most women two to six weeks before they begin to notice the difference, but once they become aware of it, most are amazed that a simple therapy like this one can make such a difference.
Gloria was pleased to be breezing through menopause with only a slight rise in temperature now and again, but then the "big one" hit. She was attending her niece's wedding when she suddenly began to feel uncomfortable. |
Elaine Feuer
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 Chinese herbs; all amino acids—such as L-lysine, L-glutamine; enzymes—such as bromelain and quercitin; co-enzyme Q10; diet formulas; antioxidant formulas; and PABA. The potency of vitamins would have been dramatically reduced to those levels found in food. High potency vitamins, such as Vitamin C in doses of 1000 milligrams or more, would have been regulated as drugs, requiring a doctor's prescription.
The FDA even petitioned to replace the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) on labels to Reference Daily Intake (RDI); RDI requirements are less than the RDA. U.S. |
Francois Couplan, Ph.D.
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 N.E. N.Am. & Appalachians - were often eaten boiled. They are also edible raw.
The roots of a Japanese species are used locally for flavoring teas and liqueurs.
Apiaceae (Ujmbeeeiferae)
To this important family belong many of our common vegetables, herbs and spices: carrot, parsnip, celery, parsley, chervil, fennel, dill, coriander, caraway, cumin and angelica, among others.
On the other hand, extremely toxic plants are found here as well, such as poison hemlock, fool's parsley and water hemlock. |
Michael Tierra
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 As ancient as this discovery was, this basic hot and cold relationship of plants and diseases is still a fundamental principle of all natural healing. Of course, there is much more to it than this, and as with any complex system, it is made complex by superimposing one clear and simple thing upon another over and over until it seems to defy our total comprehension. Thus the path of the herbalist may also encompass the laboratory with the identification and extraction of certain vital biochemical agents found in herbs. |
Andrew Chevallier
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 This has a milder, but nonetheless tonic and strengthening, effect. nervous exhaustion & stress
Herb Oats (Avena sativa, p. 172) Remedy Eat 25 g of oats each day (for example, as a hot cereal). Alternatively, take A tsp of the tincture twice a day.
General Conditions
Conditions that arise through aging need patient, long-term treatment. Ginkgo is the oldest tree on the planet. Its leaves maintain good circulation to the head and brain, improving memory, concentration, and energy levels. Evidence suggests it may reduce the risk of a stroke. |
Richard Leviton
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| Even more impressive was acidophilus (taken as a "probiotic" bacteria, beneficial to the intestines) whose drugstore sales soared by 140% and whose food store sales expanded by 57%. The U.S. vitamin and dietary supplement market was estimated in 1995 to be $4 billion a year, and was growing at the rate of 15% each year.
• Worldwide, sales of herbal medicines (called phytomedicines outside the U.S.) are equally booming, estimated at $12.4 billion for Europe, Japan, Asia, and North America. In Europe, sales of herbal medicines are allocated according to these categories: cardiovascular, 27. |
Velma J. Keith and Monteen Gordon
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| The Progesterone hormone helps the uterus prepare for a pregnancy so it can carry a baby.
MOST COMMON USES
Endurance Hot Flashes Miscarriage
Energy Impotency Senility
Frigidity Longevity Sex Stimulant
Hormones Menopause Sterility
Case History:
A man was having impotency problems. He tried the Infertility, Impotency Combination, after 2 weeks the impotency problem was much improved.
This combination has also helped men who have impotency problems because of spinal injuries.
Intestinal Cleanser Combination
1.__Comfrey, Pepsin. |
Earl Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
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| Take lalf-hour before or after meals.
>uma: One 500 mg. capsule, up to three times daily.
)HEA: One 25 mg. tablet or capsule daily.
Colds
Colds are the single most common ailment affecting humans.
The common cold may be caused by nearly one hundred different viruses.
Preschool children are the most susceptible, contracting as many as six colds a year. The average adult has two or three colds a year.
The common cold: It's not serious or life-threatening, but it can cer tainly make your life miserable. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 He says that the herb does an excellent job of relieving hot flashes and other menopausal discomforts when taken in combination with chaste-berry and damiana.
As with black cohosh, some experts believe that dong quai is estrogenic, while others insist that it isn't. As a botanist, I find the controversy fascinating. It shows how much we still have to learn about herbal medicines that have been in use for centuries.
Based on what women have told me, I'm convinced that dong quai is effective for hot flashes. |
Robyn Landis
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 Dr. Hans Selye gave further definition to the concept and won a Nobel prize for his work in this area. Selye coined the term adaptations energy, stating that when this energy is depleted, performance is limited and resistance to disease is reduced.
In order to be classified as an adaptogen, a plant must:
• Raise nonspecific resistance to disease (cell-mediated immunity)
• Be capable of normalizing bodily functions even in disease states
• Be nontoxic and completely harmless; safe for ingestion for long-term, preventive/nutritive consumption
Not all tonics are adaptogens. |
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